HOLLAND TWP. -- A local woman claims she lied when she told police that her fiancee, Isadore Heath Campbell, known to many as "Nazi dad," assaulted her.

Bethanie Zito said Friday that she's tried to retract her statements and have the charges against Campbell dropped, but officials won't let her.

"They are refusing to allow me to drop the charges even though I admitted I lied," Zito said. "I'm trying to drop the lie that was put on him."

Holland Township Police issued a warrant for Campbell's arrest on an aggravated assault charge in late October, after investigating a report filed by Zito.

"An officer from the department interviewed her, and based on her injuries and her statements, the officer called a judge and got a warrant," said Holland Police Sgt. Sean Gutsick.

Zito said the injuries weren't inflicted by Campbell as she originally claimed. Rather, she says, he left after an argument and she was mad at him so she went to work in a shed. While in there she was throwing things around, and a shelf held up by a few nails fell on her, cutting her face, Zito said.

She said she called police and claimed Campbell struck her during their argument, doing so because she was angry at him.

Gutsick said Monday that Campbell will remain wanted until he turns himself in or gets caught. "We have to get his side of the story," Gutsick said. "And we have to be convinced that she wasn't coerced into saying this now."

Campbell is listed on the Hunterdon Country Prosecutor's Office's website as among Hunterdon's Most Wanted, and Zito said she also went to the Prosecutor's Office asking that charges against Campbell be dropped.

She said she was told that when the case comes up, she'd have to accept the consequences that go with filing a false police report.

Zito said on Friday she's more than willing to do that. "They read me my rights and said they were going to arrest me," she said. "I said, 'I don't care.' I'm not going to send an innocent man to jail."

Zito said Campbell's in California now, and she wants him to feel free to come home. "I want to put it out there that he's innocent. He did not do this. He does not deserve to be in prison."